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Forum Discussion
Increase the filetypes considered in full text search
Today's Dropbox web and Desktop interfaces for full search support just certain filetypes (.doc .docx .docm .gdoc .gsheet .jpg .paper .papert .pdf .png .ppt .pptx .pptm .gif .gslide .rtf .tiff .txt .xls .xlsx .xlsm .vtt). There are, though, other files that have the same structure as some of the formally admitted filetypes and there is no technical reason to exclude them from a full text search. This is the case of the files used by the scientific text processor LaTeX (.bib, .tex, bbl...). Many of them are technically identical to the .txt files. In fact the current full text search is able to find the searched text in some of the files with these extensions although it does not find all the files having the searched text in them. Despite this rather arbitrary behaviour, the technical support team indicates that the problem is simply that the filetype is not supported for full search by the system.
Would it possible to formally include every file which is .txt compatible in the full text search?
simonDBX Thank you for you for your quick response. If you are going to consider certain extensions I would suggest to include the following four filetypes corresponding to LaTeX system: .bib, .tex, .bbl, .bak
You could consider also to test which files that are technically identical to .txt and proceed with the full text search within them in the same way as is done with the .txt files. This feature can be considered controversial as long as a more powerful search engine (advanced search option) is NOT provided by Dropbox as it can result in too many non-relevant files (work and temporary files) found.
